{"id":124605,"date":"2015-04-21T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T07:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=124605"},"modified":"2015-04-21T09:35:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T07:35:28","slug":"dive-loch-ness-with-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/124605-dive-loch-ness-with-google-maps.html","title":{"rendered":"Dive Loch Ness with Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the anniversary of the 1931 \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loch_Ness_Monster#.22Surgeon.27s_Photograph.22_.281934.29\" target=\"_blank\">Surgeon\u2019s Photograph<\/a><\/strong>\u201d of the Loch Ness Monster (aka\u00a0Nessie), Google has unveiled an \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@57.324751,-4.440336,3a,75y,250.87h,92.53t\/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sOPqFRY1JOXUAAAQfDRcs3A!2e0!3e2\" target=\"_blank\">underwater street view<\/a><\/strong>\u201d of Loch Ness.<\/p>\n<p>Collected with the assistance of Catlin Seaview Survey, Google said its partners dove deep under the surface of the lake to collect the imagery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can imagine Nessie nestling within these dark, peat-filled waters, waiting for the right moment to breach the surface into the Scottish sunlight above,\u201d <strong><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/myth-or-monster-explore-loch-ness-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Google&#8217;s Sven Tresp.<\/p>\n<p>A look at some of the images collected shows that a dive in Loch Ness quickly gets <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@57.32501,-4.440336,3a,75y,99.53h,106.37t\/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sa-OVblLpVPUAAAQfDRcs4g!2e0!3e2\">terrifyingly dark<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While this may not make for an entertaining search for Nessie, it does offer a\u00a0brief look underwater along with shots of the beautiful landscape surrounding the famous loch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-HZfKMNipqA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Google news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/122766-google-drops-r840-million-to-steal-prized-employee.html\"><strong>Google drops R840 million to steal prized employee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/122656-epic-google-gif-response-to-youtube-live-streaming-rumours.html\"><strong>Epic Google GIF response to YouTube live streaming rumours<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/122344-tag-heuer-intel-google-to-make-smartwatch.html\"><strong>Tag Heuer, Intel, Google to make smartwatch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/121916-google-balloon-crash-causes-panic.html\"><strong>Google balloon crash causes panic<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps has launched a \u201cstreet view\u201d of Loch Ness &#8211;\u00a0both the surface and underwater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":124607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,167,2272,29907,29909,29911],"class_list":["post-124605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-google","tag-google-maps","tag-loch-ness","tag-loch-ness-monster","tag-nessie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124609,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124605\/revisions\/124609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}